Sounds like what you are looking for is an intro on
PalmOS programming ... there are a number of
books out there. The first, and still king, is the book
by Neil Rhodes. It can now be found online in it's
entirety at
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/devguide/TableOfContents.htm#TopOfPage.
Other online resources include Palm's "Programmer's
Companion" at http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/palmos/CompanionTOC.html
and of course the API reference at
http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/docs/palmos/ReferenceTOC.html
(you are correct though that this last may be of little use until
you know more about what you need to search for <g>)
Finally, there are the paperware books. In addition
to Rhode's work I opted for "PalmOS Programming
For Dummies". (Despite the title, the "For Dummies"
book is anything but.) Other people seem to like the
Sam's book by Bachman. (Note: there are two Sam's
books. The Bachman book is in Sam's Professional
Series and not the "... in 24 hours" book.)
When I was looking for a new book I checked the index
for the item I was interested in -- I found it in the For
Dummies book and not the Bachman book. That doesn't
mean that the Bachman book isn't a good resource, just
that it did not meet my needs at the time. Other people
still recommend.
If you search on Amazon.com you'll find 9 books you
can choose from.
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-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
DIAMOND JEFF wrote in message <19565@palm-dev-forum>...
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>Thanks!
>
>I'll check out EvtEventAvail - it sounds like the best option!
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>
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>You know, I saw a research paper the other day about the paradox of
>searching - that when someone is searching for information they often
>don't know what words to look for... :)
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>What I need is something in between a tutorial and a reference -
>something that describes the use of the functions in a module and ties
>them all together with examples.
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>Roger Chaplin wrote:
>>
>> DIAMOND JEFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> > This is a very basic API question and I apologize if I have just
>> > overlooked in in the SDK documentation, but I was wondering if the
>> > PalmOS has something like PeekMessage such that if you have no messages
>> > in your queue, you don't block your application...
>> > (If you have messages, you of course handle them - I'm not trying to
>> > lock up the machine - just to keep my app from freezing while waiting
>> > for feedback...)
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>>
>> How about EvtEventAvail? Or, have you tried experimenting with a zero
>> timeout value to EvtGetEvent? (I haven't, but looking at the source, it
>> seems that it would do what you want, but it also seems to incur lots
>> of overhead compared to EvtEventAvail.)
>>
>> --
>> Roger Chaplin
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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